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{{quote| ''But as any man, woman or child knows, he had no friends, this [[Title Drop|Jonah Hex]]...but he did have two companions...one was death itself, the other, the acrid smell of gunsmoke.''}}

Created in the [[Bronze Age|1970s "Weird" phase]] in comics, ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' was created as a deliberate subversion of every Western hero cliche you can think. He then ended up being the last headline character of the genre in the comic book medium. He first appeared in ''"All-Star Western''" vol. 2 #10 (February-March, 1972), created by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga . The title was soon renamed to ''"All-Star Western''", with Jonah remaining its star to 1977. He was then moved to his own series, which lasted from 1977 to 1985.

When his original series ended, Jonah was thrown into a post-Apocalyptic future ala ''[[Mad Max]]'' in a title called simply ''Hex''. He had a few miniseries in [[Vertigo Comics]] with a supernatural bent, went on to a new DCU series that, with the [[Comics Code]] having lost any meaningful power, was even [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Bloodier and Gorier|Gorier]] than before, and eventually came full circle, returning to the pages of ''All-Star Western'' in the ''[[New 52]]'' as the main character.

The character has appeared in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]],'' ''[[Justice League]],'' and ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episodes and is set to appear in ''[[Legends of Tomorrow]]'' where he was played by [[Johnathon Schaech]]. Also, a [[Jonah Hex (film)|feature film]] was released on June 18 2010 starring Josh Brolin and [[Megan Fox]]. The results were... less than auspicious, with reviews ranging from mixed to horrible, and a box office that suffered heavily (thanks mostly to competition from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]''). There is also an animated "DC Showcase" short that serves as a bonus feature for ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]''; interestingly, it's written by Joe Lansdale, who wrote the Hex-starring Batman TAS episode "Showdown".

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* [[All Asians Know Martial Arts]]: The current series of ''Jonah Hex'' gave his wife Mei Ling kung fu skills despite her never displaying any during the original run of the comics.

* [[Amnesia Danger]]: In one story, Jonah is buried by a rockslide while dressed in the clothes of a preacher. Digging himself out, he cannot remember who he is. Finding a letter addressed to the preacher in his pocket, he assumes that he is the preacher and takes on the preacher's new posting as an army chaplain.

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Hex's body was reanimated in the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] of the [[Blackest Night]] and tracked down his archenemy's descendant.

** This seems to be his thing in [[The Movie]], to the point of coughing up a raven and being able to bring others [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] as well.

** How [[Badass]]? When Batman and Superman were traveling between universes [[Timey-Wimey Ball|(sort of)]] and they ended up in a universe where DC's western heroes existed in the modern day he gunned down [[Beyond the Impossible|BOTH''both'']] of them.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', he immediately deduces that Batman, [[Green Lantern]] and [[Wonder Woman]] are time travellerstravelers. How?

{{quote| "Experience. I've had an interesting life."}}

* [[A Handful for Anan Eye]]: Jonah does it while fighting mountain scum in ''Hex'' #4. (Given Jonah's penchant for fighting dirty, it would be surprising if this was the only time this trick was used in the various series.)

* [[The Hashshashin]]: Jonah fights a HashshashinHashashin brought to the [[Wild West]] as part of a [[Carnival of Killers]] during the "Six Gun War" storyline.

* [[Practical Currency]]: In ''Hex'', the standard currency are Soames: pills used to decontaminate radioactive water.

{{quote| "Ugghh! Thet rotgut shore do taste nasty! Smells nasty! Tastes nasty! Got an aroma just like kerosene! A man'd have tuh be near halfway crazy tuh drink this stuff!"}}

* [[Two-Headed Coin]]: In one comic, a Frenchman uses this to win a coin toss against Jonah, choosing to stay behind and make the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] holding off the Indians while Jonah gets the woman they were escorting to safety.